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pptEugene O몶Neill
Short Plays (one-act play)
His most-distinguished short plays include the four early sea plays, Bound East for Cardiff, In the Zone, The Long Voyage Home, and The Moon of the Caribbees, which were written between 1913 and 1917 and produced in 1924 under the overall title S.S. Glencairn;
The Emperor Jones (about the disintegration of a Pullman porter turned tropical-island dictator);
The Hairy Ape (about the disintegration of a displaced steamship coal stoker).
Long Plays (full-length play)
His most-distinguished long plays include :
- Beyond the horizon
- Anna Christie
- Mourning Becomes Electra
- The Iceman Cometh
- Long Day몶s Journey into Night
Beyond the Horizon
His first full-length play, Beyond the Horizon, impressed the critics with its tragic realism, won for O몶Neill the first of four Pulitzer prizes in drama.
The story depicts two brothers, Andrew, the elder a practical realist, and the younger, Robert, a poetic idealist. Robert is incapable of managing the family farm. When Andrew returns from a long voyage, successful and wealthy, he finds Robert dying of tuberculosis. On his deathbed, Robert still dreams of freedom beyond the horizon.
